skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author here. This is a somewhat of a follow on to another article, "Innovation in the Cruise industry... Where is it?" that you might also find interesting:
http://blog.kangacruise.com/2012/09/innovation-in-the-cruise...

Happy to get a little more into the specifics if anyone's interested. It took us a long time to get out of the "better ui, kill the travel agent" mindset that's prevalent among travel startups. The greater complexity of vacation sales really seems to throw most of the precedent set by online travel agencies (Expedia) and meta-searches (Kayak) out the window.
There are a few iOS 6 ARC specific features. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12730202/do-you-need-to-r...
I read it as, if you have a methodology/ideology as your goal rather than an actual goal, you'll fall short of people who keep their eyes on the prize. I guess it could be read multiple ways.
Striving, yes. Rather than shoehorning, which is what Linus appears to oppose.
First of all, I live in China (Beijing). Alibaba is mostly a C2C (or at most C2B) platform and is the method offered to foreign countries. It started as a way, similar to eBay, to sell your 'Buy now' products (called Taobao), however it easily enabled small 'business' to establish; individuals started to resell products and act as agents for the factories.

It is much harder to deal with the factory yourself. First of all, the quantities you have to buy are MUCH higer before they even wanna deal with you. Chinese agents mostly can get small quantities. Also, there is a language barrier. English language level is not really high, especially in the area where manufacturing happens. it is really YMMV... they often are not much better than the agents.. From what you tell here, it seems you are dealing with a good agent.

About the original article. What do they mean with 'safer' ? Security? Honesty?
> At some point, you need to solve the complex problem.

This is a good point that I see ignored many, many times by people trying to push a simple system.

One of the worst examples are the people who think files are bad, and that all state needs to be preserved all the time. They claim that the problem of determining what to save is not worth solving because it doesn't exist in their systems.

Needless to say, they are wrong. I will not redesign my workflow to fit their tools, and they're amazingly presumptuous to even consider asking anyone to. Just because they cannot solve a problem doesn't mean it isn't actually a problem, and the fact they consider differences of opinions to be technical problems is diagnostic of their whole worldview.
Neat!

Next: Stripe and Curebit. (With their speed of development, I just had to check their site to make sure this hasn't already been done.)
Cyanogenmod should fit most of your needs http://www.cyanogenmod.com
DRM has worked so well in other areas so far :|
Yeah, you may be right. I wrote up the blog post and considered withdrawing it before anyone read it but it somehow managed to get its way here anyways because my co-founder thought it'd be funny to post.

If it cuts into my ability to work at my startup, I'll stop immediately as that's my #1 priority. You'll be surprised though that even putting in 60 hrs a week into a startup, exercising and having a significant other, if you work efficiently you still have time left. (168 hrs in a week - 60 - 8 hrs a day for sleep = 62 free hrs left. 1 hr a day for exercising and 2 hrs a day for an SO leaves 41 hrs left. )

But really though, I don't know. This might turn into a lesson about how distracting side projects can be while running a startup. Or how to optimize your time more efficiently. Or even how to run a bad experiment. If this turns out to be a really bad idea, I'll learn from it, share it with you guys and move on.

Thanks for watching out for me though. I appreciate your concern.
here's a suggestion: start immediately with a cool project, like a game or a web server.

Beats the "here's 2+2" type problems.
Forget the sub, I'd pay that kind of money and far more just to get the quality of Internet they are claiming to have at sea.
Can Romeny saying lies convince people to vote for him? If you get messages in front of people that sound good (to non-critical thinkers anyway) then you'll gain their trust.
Edit: Not trying to imply Microsoft will be lying about however they'll be promoting the product.
This is neither here nor there, but I don't understand your "1 hour of pay" comment. Although it was ambiguous, I'm going to interpret it to mean that "most of HN" makes more than 24$ (equivalent to a one year subscription) per hour. I think that this is a gross exaggeration and fairly presumptuous. It find it doubtful that the majority of people on HN make such a sum.

Most people don't pull in money hand-over-fist. For many, 24$ is a non-trivial expense. If not in actuality than in perception.
> Bloated, as in, takes way too much space for what it is.
> Additionally, it does _not_ avoid excess mod operations, _and_ the implementation is _broken_ because it won't print fizzbuzz for the 15.

If we're talking about the Haskell version here (I can't tell?), you're wrong on all counts.

• It is about as short as any reasonable impl I've seen of FizzBuzzBazz. Not long at all.

• And it does print out correctly for 15.

• And it does NOT do excess operations. It does exactly one modulo per factor.

Do you not understand how it works? I detail it pretty closely in the post; please look again.

The second ruby version _is_ long, but does not perform excess operations (unless you're complaining about Ruby's implementation of lambdas, which is out of scope). As I said both in my article and in this discussion; coding during an interview is tricky and that's not a bad effort.

Fianlly, the naive if-chain extensions are deliberately wrong to extend, but my initial research and experience is that most programmers don't realize that until they try it once. But then, they're lifted right from Rosetta Code so they're hardly unrepresentative of what people consider an "unacceptable" version of Fizzbuzz.
Hi Yuri,

Yea I see your points but couldn't the same points be made for elance and yet they exists. I don't know the financials but I am using elance right now because coding this thing takes too long for my taste and I want to move on to the next thing.

With that said, elance may be used by someone who has no development skills whatsoever so it will have a bigger market, no doubt.

But, I can see a service like this to go beyond development, it could be about marketing, strategy, SEO, etc...

PS: Would you be willing to mentor me ;)
I don't think eBay is really the best place for small sellers anymore either, they are kind of in between both models and not a leader in either.
This could start a trend towards moving away from Kickstarter. So far, the more famous projects that have pursued funding from a similar model without using Kickstarter itself (e.g. Lockitron, App.net) have done so out of necessity – they weren't allowed to use the Kickstarter platform.

But if people keep succeeding without being hosted on Kickstarter itself, that 5% fee might look more and more unattractive to people starting large projects. How much value does being on Kickstarter really add to your project, and how much is simply due to the brilliant fundraising model?
Aw man, this sounds great. Who wants to do one in San Francisco?
Good stuff! Just a question, in the first session example, should the url_for('say_hello') be url_for('message')? And in the message template, 'index' maybe should be 'home'.
The developer toolbar mostly. I do a good amount of web dev so its helpful. Taking pdf screenshots with a single command has come in handy. Also the 3D view is gimmicky but pretty awesome. Tab groups is another favorite.

There still seems to be some sort of memory leakage though. I have to shut down the browser every so often to clear out the 3GB of ram it suddenly decided it needed to have.
Considering all of the kickstarter things I have backed have come from my social graph, rather then kickstarter's discovery tools, I'm not sure it's discovery for the larger scale projects.
Watching this video makes me wonder if Wolfram's "New Kind of Science" is getting old (like Tetris).

I was actually reading that book at the book store for hours, getting quite intrigued, but at the same time deterred by its size. Perhaps I should give it another shot some day.
So, then you get into the question of how replaceable the founders are. For Google that's probably "not much", since there were some pretty big intuitive leaps that were non-obvious when they came out. Even then, however - a lot of people I know say that the inflection point in Google's success was when they hired Urs Hoezle as employee #9, because he had been through the process of architecting a massively-complex system before (he founded the startup that eventually became Java's HotSpot compiler).

But for Facebook - millions of programmers could have written Facebook as it existed in 2004. Mark Zuckerburg did, and he got the billions.

And Twitter - millions of programmers could have written Twitter as it existed in 2006. Jack Dorsey did, and he gets the reputation (and the paper billions).

And Instagram - millions of programmers could write Instagram. Kevin Systrom did. And he happened to know Adam D'Angelo, who introduced him to Marc Andreesen. Who was the critical link in the chain? Kevin, Adam, or Marc?
"Garbage Collection" by Jones & Lins was, in my opinion, an excellent book back in the day: http://tinyurl.com/8lrveqm

I noticed that Jones has a new book (The Garbage Collection Handbook) out now, which presumably is even better: http://tinyurl.com/8nl6con
Yeah, I wrote that part as a half joke. The point I was trying convey though is better explained by Peter Thiel:

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-venn-diagram-shows-why-s...

Thanks for the suggestion on affiliate marketing. Funny thing is the idea I'm going to pursue is sort of like affiliate marketing. (I've also worked at an affiliate marketing SaaS in the past)
Free speech? Free speech would be not banning Gawker and allowing Gawker to doxx the scumbag. Free speech, right?
You sure about that? I thought canvas enforced a same-origin policy
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Great way to make the prices clear. 15% more for Japan, I think it's time to move my things back to US East (Virginia) and make some savings.

It had some pricing on S3 but I think it would be nice to also have the prices for RDS. A medium-sized one of those things costs as much as a medium EC2 instance (yes I learned that the hard way).
> It's just that I'm not a beginning programmer.

That should have been the first thing you said. :)

But such tutorials are obviously for rank beginners, experienced programmers don't use these kinds of sites. Unless it's a dramatic jump, like from COBOL to Haskell, to learn a new language they go straight to the language's documentation:

Python 2:

http://docs.python.org/

Python 3:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/
The tagline "Like Alibaba, But Safer" makes me think of Panjiva.com - have you guys heard of them?

(Disclosure: Roommate used to work there)
> You see, there is a thing called "barrier of entry" to ideas.

Just to give people a strong, striking example of this, before they try to argue the concept away wholesale:

Banks. Starting a bank is a good idea. Everyone would be doing it... if they knew how, and had the connections, and the starting capital, and etc. etc. for a huge list of qualifications.
I don't see why this could not be released as a web app:

1. Access from any device;
2. Charging via PayPal isn't worse if not better than the App Store.
"It is very likely that the Rust language will go with a similar model [per-thread instead of global garbage collection]."

Rust is using this model today.
That's awesome! My project inspired by the Game of Life is quite a bit less ambitious (and still incomplete) - http://nickknowlson.com/projects/conways-revenge/

It lets multiple cell colonies fight against each other using a modified ruleset.
Pure Javascript Gameboy Advance Emulator
Dude, what ever you have written is very top notch high end architecture kind of stuff. I am very surprised that you did not knew about one small thing called amazon ec2 or cloud computing.
I would just use soft word wrap - well, I always have soft wrap on, but especially in this case it seems simplest to me to let long sentences/clauses soft wrap and retain the mapping from line to semantic unit.
I find myself adapting my coding style in order to produce prettier diffs (for code reviewers). For example, I may insert extra vertical whitespace or place a new function's definition where it won't be melded with unrelated diff chunks.

I've played around with Bram Cohen's "patience" diff algorithm, but I can only remember a couple times when it produced a better diff.
I agree. I admit that the experiment is completely flawed and any sort of data will be completely subjective. Also, I want to be on record that there are a lot of people out there who are living truly desperate lives and I don't mean to undercut them in any way.
I guess it depends on how viral and interesting your product offering is and how well you market it. Kickstarter has the benefit of a large user base with lots of traffic. Though as more projects are listed on KS it becomes harder to be found.
I know we've heard over and over about medical bankruptcies, I don't think that's the issue in most filings.

It's typical for a family of 4 to have 2 new car payments, tens (if not hundreds) of thousands in student loan debt, a $300K mortgage, $20K or more in credit card debt, and all the costs of kids (soccer dues, etc). How long can a family like that do without income or at best lose half? Probably 2-3 months, tops. That's what causes bankruptcy.
So the Schrodinger equation isn't quite accurate then?

Does the Dirac equation take this into effect?
Couldn't have been a better day to come across this.

Needed to sell seats for my workshop, and was going to build a registration page and hook it up to Stripe's new button. 5 minutes later with Wufoo and I'm up and accepting registrations :-)

Feature request: Allow for a coupon field.
Did you, um, click the links at the top?
"Experiment #2: Can I start a bank?"
Sorry, I meant the script and site itself, not openssl itself.
"I, a Baby Boomer, have a higher retirement age than my parents have ..."

It went up from 65 to 67 years. That isn't worth remarking upon, imho. Considering life expectancy, it probably went down as a percentage of expected lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_%28United_Stat...
yep, you can just drop it into a bootstrap project. if you want a button to use the style just add "m-" to the usual bootstrap "btn" class.
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colinsidoti, thanks for bringing up Panjiva. We're very familiar with the company, in fact I had an opportunity to meet Josh Green, founder & CEO, at World Trade Week in NYC this past May. We really like what the company is doing. Think of them like the google of international trade related search. Just last week, they announced Global Search, which will seriously bolster their service. Here's an excellent resource for learning more about Panjiva: http://panjiva.com/blog
I think coderwall is awesome because it gives you an idea of what the culture is like within the company. You get to see who else is on the team and what they are good at.
Actually iOS 6 does introduce a set of new APIs for attributed strings that would make something like this a lot more performant and obviate the need to use web views. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the driving factors in making that the minimum target.
Sign me up. Email's in my profile if you're serious.
This is how it should be. Most of the kickstarter projects get funded after doing lot of promotions and leveraging founders's own social network. Kickstarter taking % cut of the fund is completely unnecessary in many situations. They do provide some kind of project validation which is important in high-risk projects.
I was under the impression that the collector that's in place right now is just a cycle collector, not a full-blown garbage collector. But please correct me if I'm wrong!
There may be a CSRF attack, but probably completely unrelated: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19832043
I seem to remember some post on HN about how 90% of interview candidates can't write FizzBuzz?
What do I think? I think they have the right to ask for anything they want. And applicants have the right to ignore them, if that's what they want. It's not as though there's a rule that job descriptions have to be reasonable.

There's an old joke about parenting -- "I used to have six rules and no children, now I have six children and no rules." Maybe this company has hired too many children.
Nice job guys! This is pretty awesome stuff.
Hopefully your SO knows that they only have 2 hours per day of your time...
Can desperation drive success?

I don't know, but I'll find out soon!
Desperation does not drive success. Everyone can smell desperation and no one likes that smell.

What drives success is generally concerted effort over a long period of time. Startups can take on massive risk because they are minimally capitalized. Taking a chance of some Obama-Os is a smart play because the risk is minimal (some photoshop time) and the pay off decent ($25K). Obama-Os aren't desperation, it's smart business. If they printed $10K of boxes before testing the market then it would just be stupid.

What the OP is doing is what every business book does, take a bunch of winners, find somethings in common and attribute those things to success.

To me it sounds like the OP has decided to go down the MVP path by eating what he kills. It's not desperation, it's a good way to get on track to making money because you have to abandon VC fundable ideas early.

Caesar feared the hungry man, not the desperate man.
It does.

The setup took a couple months to research, build, and make "perfect". However, ongoing it takes little time to maintain (less than an hour a week, if averaged). Every three years, I build new servers and place them into service (2 to 3 weeks of time to perform). I also do periodic hardware maintenance roughly every three months (typically 1/4 of a day to perform).

Due to the cost savings, we also are able to do quite a bit of redundancy, such as: dual PSUs, SSDs in RAID 10 on non-SAN servers, RAID-Z2/3 on SAN servers, offsite backups, complete server redundancy, spare servers ready to be slotted (I live an hour from colo), spare parts on hand, even multiple physical colos.

If components are selected carefully (i.e. sharing components between server roles), regular maintenance is performed, and redundancy is ensured on a per component, per server, and per datacenter level, it's not very time intensive or costly.

I am a software engineer by trade, but love the ins and outs of hardware/ops. As such, everything is automated and scripted (that can be). I can raise/move instances in minutes, just like EC2 (currently use XCP).

Even with the research, it still saves roughly 100k per 3 years.
gbraad, thanks very much for your insights! Your assessment of Alibaba.com's international marketplace is spot on.

Here's what we mean by 'safer'; our competing B2B International Marketplace (soon to be branded) is an integrated ecosystem of logistics service providers (neutral 3rd party logistics warehouses), suppliers and buyers. Our inspection, inventory management, and distribution management suite allows for real-time visibility (http://www.hdtradeservices.com/distributor.php#inspection), and facilitates a hyper-proactive approach to purchasing. The result is an unprecedented level of transparency and security when sourcing, as you can verify quality before your goods are paid for and shipped. Further, all suppliers on our platform will be rigorously vetted, and monitored via our inspection service.

I hope this helps answer your question.
It's an amazingly in-depth and concise book. I fully recommend it!
Markets generate efficient solutions to enormously complex allocation and optimization

(1) The use of 'efficient' by economists is 'naive'

(2) Markets spit out data, nothing else

(3) They don't speak, you revise your priors

If these points make sense to you, they might be interesting lines of inquiry. If not, you might want to look back on this later.

[Edit: This assumes a solid technical understanding, so where you are in your understanding (academic/practical), and what your purpose is for your inquiry, will determine how ambitious you can be. Probably understood, but for the avoidance of doubt, worth stating nevertheless.]
Actually I would vote for the simpler one. Branch predictor should take care of the optimization pretty well.
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One issue I noticed.. In Chrome if you zoom the browser to 125%, the 'arrow in a circle' icons look funny.
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> I think coderwall is awesome because it gives you an idea of what the culture is like within the company.

I think it's better to ask tough questions during a phone or in-person interview. With something like coderwall it's easy for them to say "oh sorry that's old information" on your first day but it's too late - you're stuck in a hell job.

Asking your prospective employer tough questions during the interview goes hand-in-hand with the 2nd problem: The companies will only post the good things, not bad.

The other big problem is I would guess a lot of these will turn into vague corporate mission statements or copy and pastes of recruiting e-mails with nothing too specific, just a lot of flowered up language.

> You get to see who else is on the team and what they are good at.

Who's going to keep that information updated and how frequently will it be updated? Getting the names of your teammates and then Googling them would likely be a much better source of finding out what they're truly good at.
true talk. Their failure to do that and trying to be a gate keeper and dictating what gets a shot might be their bane.